Arvil and Jim, thank you for all the work that you have done on William, Simon , etc. If by any chance you come on proof that John is related please let me know. I am referring to John born in Chesterfield County, VA in 1735. I know that he had sons named Simon, William, Thomas, Peter, and John. There is still hope. I keep saying the information is out there, we just don't know where. Case in point. I discovered this week that most of Georgia's Colonial records were removed from Savannah, the capitol, during the Revolutionary war because the patriots thought that the British would destroy them. Those records went to Charleston, SC, New Bern, NC, Pennsylvania, Maryland and possibly to London to a person who was a patriotic supporter. I don't know whether those records ever got back to GA and if they did where are they? I had always had a question about why my Hancocks were in New Bern NC. That was off the trail for them coming to SC, and GA. When I found out that information it explained the New Bern Wills of my Hancocks, Marshalls, and Carters who probably never lived there. They were not NC wills but GA wills. I am willingly to say that if the locations mentioned in those wills could be checked that the lands would be in GA. Also, Every time that I go to my local library, there is new information on my families that I have never read before. Someone has investigated the facts and written a book. I have also found some very interesting old maps that I have downloaded. These maps all show that Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia stretched from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. I knew that Georgia had done that but did not know the other states had done so. These maps seem to very accurate for the most part. Many are in French. Most are in English. A few have a hand written note that said that they were located in London. The indian trading paths were marked on most of the maps. My families had come down an old indian trading path to Georgia. I suspect that many peoples came to other states that way. Also, in Georgia, the boundary lines for counties changed almost yearly for about 12-15 years. Persons in one county this year might be in another county next year. No wonder we can't find these people that we in the 21st century are now looking for. I lucked up this week while working on my father's family who also came from VA to GA, and found that they had been GA just after the Revolutionary War. I had thought they had come much later. The three brothers came because land was given to them for being soldiers in the War. Their father was left behind in VA to be a citizen patriot and take care of the neighboring women whose husbands were at war. Well, he died in 1789. They probably had to go back to VA to settle his estate and they come back to GA at the later time that I had always known about. Again, thank you for all that you do to help us all find our long since gone relatives. Mary Wolfe